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Correspondence Cheekungtong (Chinese Freemasons)

Description

Includes handwritten correspondence that pertains to Chinese immigrants' family and financial issues, such as requests for monetary assistances and undelivered family letters to China. Records also include correspondence that reflects the impact of World War II on the Chinese immigrants in Canada: for instance, a letter was detained in Hong Kong by the Japanese from December 1941 to September 1945 and a pile of undelivered Chinese war relief fund tickets, were kept by the Dart Coon Club of Victoria, B.C. for unknown reasons. There are a number of empty envelopes.

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Title
Correspondence
Creator
Cheekungtong (Chinese Freemasons)
Date Created
[between 1908 and 1945?]
Description
Includes handwritten correspondence that pertains to Chinese immigrants' family and financial issues, such as requests for monetary assistances and undelivered family letters to China. Records also include correspondence that reflects the impact of World War II on the Chinese immigrants in Canada: for instance, a letter was detained in Hong Kong by the Japanese from December 1941 to September 1945 and a pile of undelivered Chinese war relief fund tickets, were kept by the Dart Coon Club of Victoria, B.C. for unknown reasons. There are a number of empty envelopes.
Subject
Asian experience in North America;
Person Or Corporation
Cheekungtong (Chinese Freemasons)
Genre
Correspondence
Type
Text
File Format
application/pdf
Language
Chinese
Identifier
CC_TX_124_010
Collection
Wallace B. Chung and Madeline H. Chung Collection
Source
Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. The Chung Collection
Date Available
2015-10
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca/
DOI
10.14288/1.0132408
Category
Cheekungtong (Chinese Freemasons)
RBSCLocation
Box 124
Aggregated Source Repository
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Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books and Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca/